Package: coreutils Version: 8.25-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
as an extension, coreutils supported moving one file to another, when both refer to the same file. This support has been lost after upgrading from 8.23-4 (stable) to 8.25-2. That is, in 8.25-2: # touch a; ln -f a b; mv a b mv: 'a' and 'b' are the same file and both names still exist. While in 8.24-4, the "obvious" happens, i.e. only "b" is left after the mv command. It would be wonderful if this extension could somehow survive, as the new behaviour is rather counter-intuitive (one expects that "mv a b", if possible, makes b refer to a, and a is gone afterwards). Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.1.18-040118-generic (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.52-2 ii libattr1 1:2.4.47-2 ii libc6 2.21-9 ii libselinux1 2.4-3 coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
